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All right, let's turn to Romans chapter 8 again this morning. Romans chapter 8. We have been considering in some depth the ministry of the Holy Spirit in this chapter, and we are profoundly enriched by what Paul gives us here of divine insight into the Spirit's work. What prompted the series emphasizing the Holy Spirit is a feeling in my own heart and the sense – and I think it's an accurate one – that there's a member of the Trinity who gets left out in Christian worship and Christian discussion and Christian teaching and in Christian living, and He is the very member of the Trinity to whom we are most indebted for our Christian experience, and that is none other than the Holy Spirit.
Just in general, Christian worship today is more about style than it is about substance. It's more about feeling than it is about fact. It's more about self than it is about the Savior. It's more about therapy than theology. It's more about the secular than the sacred. It's more about good feelings than the glory of God. And as we have endeavored to look at the woeful state of Christian worship today, it strikes us that while we do give some attention to God the Father and sing songs about His attributes, and we give much attention to Christ and sing songs about His person and work, very little is said about the Holy Spirit. If we are to worship God fully and totally, we must worship Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Many Christians know very little about the ministry of the Holy Spirit. There is so much error floating around about the Holy Spirit that people avoid saying much about the Spirit for fear they might contradict the popular thinking of the time. But we must worship God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit in the full sense and full knowledge of the revelation of each member of the Trinity, and so we've been endeavoring to understand the wonderful, blessed ministry of the Spirit of God. We sort of laid it out that the Father planned redemption, the Son provided the means of redemption in His death and resurrection, and the Spirit produces the work of redemption in us. He is the agent that brings about the actuality of the plan that God initiated and that the Son validated; He is the one who activates it.
We must understand the biblical ministry of the Holy Spirit. We're warned in Scripture about not grieving the Spirit, not quenching the Spirit, not insulting the Spirit, not blaspheming the Spirit. Little wonder that we're warned about those things because that seems to be a very common thing. So we've been trying to reconnect with things that are clearly revealed in Scripture that maybe we have let lay dormant for a long time with regard to the Holy Spirit, and we have been learning that it is the Holy Spirit who regenerates us. John 3: "We are born of the Spirit." It is the Holy Spirit who convicts us of sin and righteousness and judgment, John 16. The Holy Spirit even participates in our justification. First Corinthians 6:11 says: "The Spirit, it participates in our justification." Second Corinthians 3 tells us that it is the Spirit who sanctifies us, moving us from one level of glory to the next in conforming us to the image of Christ.
We've learned in Romans 8 that it is the Spirit who confirms our adoption as sons of God. The Spirit takes up residence in us. The Spirit gives us assurance by witnessing with our spirits that we are the children of God. First Corinthians 12 says the Spirit baptizes us into the body of Christ by which we become one with every other believer. In that same chapter, it says that the Spirit gives to us spiritual gifts by which we serve Christ and minister to the body. It is the Spirit who assists our prayers. In Jude 1:20, it talks about praying in the Spirit. It is the Spirit who strengthens us in the inner man, Ephesians 3:16. It is the Spirit who guides us, as many as possessed the Holy Spirit are led by the Spirit, we saw in Romans 8. It is the Spirit who produces fruit through us, attitude fruit, love, joy, peace, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, self-control, and all kinds of righteous activity as well. It is the Spirit who delivers us from sin, enabling us to be obedient to God. It is the Spirit who illuminates the Word and is our internal resident truth teacher.
And on top of that, the capstone of those things, it is the Spirit who secures our eternal glory. It is the Spirit who secures our eternal glory, and that great ministry of the Holy Spirit is the theme that I pointed you to when I read the Scripture, Romans 8:18 to 39. That entire section is focused on that one glorious reality, that salvation is forever. That salvation is forever. That we are protected by the power of God unto that final glorification and that inheritance laid up for us that does not fade away, undefiled, reserved in heaven. The Spirit secures our eternal glory. In Scripture, He seals us to the day of redemption. He is the guarantee, the first installment, the down payment, the engagement ring, the first fruits. He is the power of God. He is the protector of every believer until one day He is the one who raises us to eternal glory, even as He raised Christ from the dead.
All of this, of course, cause to worship the Holy Spirit. This is the true doctrine of the Holy Spirit as over against all the false misrepresentations and blasphemies against the Holy Spirit that are so common and popular today.
So Paul has been going through these verses, starting – actually, he mentions glorification in verse 17, then starting in 18, running all the way down to verse 30, he has given us this great, glorious argument for the eternality of our salvation. That if you are saved, it is forever. It is forever. And the culmination of his argument comes in verse 30, that whoever God predestines to be conformed to His Son, He calls in time with an effectual call to salvation. Whomever He calls, He justifies, and whomever He justifies, He glorifies so that the people who are glorified are the people who were predestined. No one is lost in the middle. This is what Paul presents to us. This is the purpose of God. This is the work of the Holy Spirit. So Paul has been telling us that all things in our lives, whatever they are, God causes to work together for our eternal good and glory because we are the called according to that purpose and we have come into a love relationship with Him.
I've taught this doctrine all my life. I teach it with passion because it's so clear in Scripture, and yet through all of my life and ministry, I have had to debate people who reject the idea that salvation is forever. I was in a former military base in Belarus outside the city of Minsk where the Communist soldiers were stationed during the great Russian Empire. It was turned into a kind of a camp and I went there with some pastors, and I was giving a message and I made reference to the fact that eternal – that salvation is eternal, that once you are regenerated, it is forever, and you can anchor your soul in the confidence of the hope of eternal glory. And afterwards – it was all pastors who were there, Belorussian and Russian pastors, and they came to me and they said, "We think that's wrong." And I said, "Well, you need to give me some time in the morning to answer all your objections."
So I got up in the morning, went and had a little bowl of something, I don't know what it was, for breakfast, and I went into the meeting. And they were rubbing their eyes – they'd been there all night. They stayed up all night collecting all the reasons why I was wrong. And so I started in with one after another, after another, after another, after another. I understand that. I don't want to argue with them, I want them to enjoy their salvation. I want to get them out of the fear of losing it. I want them to rejoice in the hope that it's secure. It was a gift I was trying to give them, and they kept pushing it back, and I had to give it again and again and again and go through every objection and every argument through a long day. I understand that. Paul understands that.
So when you come to the end of verse 30, Paul now anticipates objections. He knows somewhere, someplace there's a group of people who have stayed up all night and they've figured out some objections. And he knows what they're going to be because there are only certain things you can argue about. Paul knows this: that there are only two possibilities, that some person can cause you to lose your salvation or some circumstance. That's all you've got. That's complete. That's all the categories there are. And so the question is: Can some person cause you to lose your salvation in spite of the work of the Holy Spirit, in spite of the provision of Christ, and in spite of the purpose of God? Or if not some person, can some circumstances cause it to happen? So overwhelming, so powerful that you forfeit your salvation? That becomes the subject of verses 31 to 39.
The first part, verses 31 to 34, answers the question: Is there a person who can cause you to lose your salvation? Verses 35 to 37, Is there a circumstance that can cause you to lose your salvation?" And then a glorious wrap-up at the end of the chapter.
Now, Paul introduces this, and we're just going to take point one about persons. He introduces this in verse 31: "What then shall we say to these things?" What then shall we say to these things? What things? The things concerning eternal salvation. The subject since verse 18 has been on the eternality of salvation, that God has secured us in His purpose, the Holy Spirit intercedes for us, God works all things together for our eternal good, that if we have been foreknown and predestined to be conformed to the image of Jesus Christ, we will get there and none of us will be lost, that all who are called are justified and glorified – all those things that relate to an eternal salvation that cannot be lost. What shall we say to these things? What's your response? That's the question. What is the conclusion you want to draw?
Well, Paul knows that there are going to be people who will protest this. They're going to say salvation can be lost. It's a wonderful thing, but it can be lost because there are certain persons and there are certain circumstances that can cause us to abandon it or to have it taken away from us, to forfeit it. So Paul says, "Okay, let's consider the persons." Is there a human being or human beings who can take away our salvation? Can have such power over us? Such influence over us that they can remove what God has given for us? That's embodied in the question at the end of verse 31: "If God is for us, who's against us?" The who here is looking at persons, people. Is there a person who can take away your salvation? You say, "Well, who would ever want to do that?" Lots of people that are offended by your Christianity. Maybe your spouse. Maybe your children wish you weren't saved and would do anything they could to get you off this kick. Unsaved family members.
Matthew 10, Jesus said He came to bring a sword and set people against their family, be hated by father, mother, sister, brother. How about secular educators? You send your child off to the university – do you think the agenda there is to confirm the faith of those that are professing Christ? I don't think so. I think they would do everything they could to destroy that. What about the collective immoral indoctrination of our society? You think it's the goal of the culture and the society in which we live to stabilize your convictions in Jesus Christ? Or to destroy them? Do you think they want to confirm your faith in the Bible? Your view of creation? Your view of the end of the age? Your view of eternity, heaven, hell? Or do they want to destroy that? Do they want to separate you from that? Do they want to cast doubt into your mind?
The whole culture is set against you. There are all kinds of people, because they all operate in the kingdom of darkness, who would do anything they could to separate you from your faith and your salvation. False religionists would do it. Cult leaders would do it. False teachers would do it. There are plenty of people who would do it and plenty of them have influence and power and impact and sophistication. And Paul says, "If God is for us, who's against us?"
What does he mean by that? Well, it's a conditional sentence in the Greek that starts with a particle, ei, which is pronounced but it's E-I. And that's a conditional clause that should be translated "since" because it's not about probability, it's about actuality. It's an actual reality put in a conditional clause, so it would be read this way: "Since God is for us, who successfully can be against us?" It's a pretty simple argument, isn't it? Is anybody more powerful than God? God has predetermined our eternal destiny to be conformed to the image of His Son, that His Son might be the preeminent one among many brethren. God has predetermined the end at the beginning. God called us, justified us, and He promises to glorify us, that's His purpose. His Son intercedes for us on that behalf and so does the Holy Spirit. those two intercessors we talked about.
We know what God wants, right? We know God's plan and God's purpose is to bring us all to glory and lose none of us and to give us everlasting life. And we will never perish. And Jesus said, "No one will take them out of My Father's hand." That's God's promise, that's God's pledge. And since God is for us, what person would be more powerful? In the church, Paul warned, you can be in a church, you can be in a religious organization that claims to be Christian and he says this: "It can be a dangerous place. After My departure, savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock, and from among your own selves, men will arise – men will arise speaking perverse things." For what? "To draw away the disciples after them." There are people in churches that wear religious garb that stand in pulpits that teach in seminaries that want to take you away from your convictions, your faith. They want to steal your salvation. But if God is for you, are they more powerful than God?
You know, when you think about that, you go back – at least I do – to the Old Testament. The believers in the Old Testament knew God was their security. I love the words of Psalm 27. This is David: "The Lord is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear?" Right? If the Lord is my salvation, who would I fear? "The Lord is the defense of my life. Who will I dread? When evildoers came upon me to devour my flesh, my adversaries, my enemies, they stumbled and fell. Though a host encamp against me, my heart will not fear. Though war arise against me, in spite of this, I'll be confident." What are you so confident about? "One thing I asked from the Lord, that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life to behold the beauty of the Lord and to meditate in His temple." I just ask to be with Him forever. "And in the day of trouble, He will conceal me in His tabernacle; in the secret place of His tent He will hide me, He will lift me up on a rock and my head will be lifted up above my enemies and I will offer sacrifices with shouts of joy. I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to the Lord."
Doesn't matter who comes against us. God is for us. God is for us. "Don't fear" – Genesis 15:1 – "I'm a shield to you," God says. "The Lord is near" – Numbers 14:9. "Don't fear." It's really the flipside of verse 28. God positively causing all things to work together for our eternal good, that's the positive. The negative is no one can undo that. If God causes everything to work to our good, then no one can make anything work to our evil. No one can remove our no-condemnation status indicated in chapter 8 verse 1. There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus. No one, no person, no human – we're talking about human persons, that's our first point – no human person can do that because God is greater than any and all humans. So the objection about humans falls away in the simple statement at the end of verse 31: "If God is for us" – or since He's for us – "who could successfully be against us?"
Ah, but a second possibility. God Himself. Can God Himself take away our salvation? Hey, the Lord gives, the Lord takes, blessed be the name of the Lord. Can He take our salvation away? Can He change His mind about us? Can He be so disappointed in us? Can we follow a pattern of sin to the degree that He takes back what He gave us? Can He see us sinning and see us being disobedient and remove from us the life that He gave us? Does He kill us? Because He made us alive. He regenerated us. We were born again, we were given new life. Does He kill us and now we're dead again? Is keeping us saved just too much trouble?
Paul answers that in verse 32. "He who did not spare His own Son but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things?" Let me tell you, that's a simple verse. I know you read it, it sounds a little bit troubling cause you can't quite sort it out, but it's a very simple verse. It is the classic Jewish argument from the greater to the lesser. It's a simple argument. He didn't spare His own Son but delivered Him over for us all. Don't you think if He gave us His Son to save us He'll give us lesser things to keep us? That's the argument. The argument from the greater to the lesser. God's love is so strong for those He chooses to redeem that He gives His own Son. The best, the most, the purest, the divine one, the highest price, the greatest cost, His own beloved Son to save us. Don't you think He would do less than that to keep us?
And think about it this way – turn to Romans 5. When you were saved, you were saved strictly by grace. You didn't do anything to earn it. Romans 5:6: You were helpless and you were ungodly. So God gave His Son, Christ, to die for the helpless and the ungodly, and we can say the spiritually dead and the blind and the ignorant and the wicked. And, you know, people don't do that. Verse 7: "One hardly would die for a righteous man, though perhaps for the good man someone would even dare to die." I mean now and then you see somebody give his life for somebody who's a good person but that's pretty rare. But if somebody is willing to give his life, that rare reality, the person he's going to give his life for is going to be a good person, right? Somebody that he has great admiration for, respect for, love for. They're not going to give his life for a bad person, for a criminal, for an enemy.
But God, in verse 7, demonstrates His love toward us, His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. We were sinners. Wretched, lost, blind, dead, godless, helpless, and He gave His Son to die for us. Much more than having now been justified by His blood, the sacrifice, we will be saved, or we will be being saved, kept saved from the wrath of God through Him. Look, if God gave His Son in death to make our justification possible, don't you think the life of the Son of God will secure our glorification? That's the whole point.
Verse 10: "If while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more beyond that, having been reconciled will be being saved by His life." We were literally redeemed at the most infinite cost, the death of Christ, and we will be kept by the living interceding Christ. Even Christ gave the greater gift to save us and the lesser gift to keep us. He died to save us; He lives to keep us. If the Father gave His Son to save us when we were ungodly, gave His Son in death to save us, will He not give His Son and His Spirit in life to secure us? I mean, it's that simple a concept, that God has done the greater in justifying us when we were unworthy, ungodly, wretched. Will He not now that we belong to Him and have been transformed and made new creatures and have righteous longing and holy affection, will He not do what He needs to do to keep us, which is far less than the giving of His Son in the sacrifice of the horrors of the cross?
Several elements in that verse, back in Romans 8. Several elements are just so wonderfully profound. Verse 32: "He who did not spare His own Son," He didn't hold Him back. In fact, Isaiah 53:10 says, "It pleased the Lord to bruise Him. He has put Him to grief." He didn't spare His Son. And I love this: "His own Son," idios in the Greek, one's own particular, private possession, the Son that belonged to Him, the Son of His own love, God was willing to do this for us. If He was willing to give the greatest gift of all to save us, He will do everything less than that to keep us.
The language, "He delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things?" Since He delivered Him over, that's a very graphic term. Delivering over was handing somebody over to the executioner – technical term. Since the Father delivered the Son to the destruction and damnation and punishment that sin required, the rest of the verse then, "will He not also with Him freely give us all that flows out of that?" All we need to be secure?
Who delivered Jesus to death? It wasn't Judas for money. It wasn't Pilate for fear. It wasn't the Jews for envy. It was the Father for love for us all. For us all. The "us all" – verse 32 – the "us all" is the "us" of verse 31. "If God is for us, who is against us?" Those "us's" are the "these" of verse 30. "These whom He predestined, called, justified, these He also glorified." Whoever is in the plan, the provision for them has been made, and God will add to that provision in the gift of His Son anything else that is necessary to get them to glory. I love the fact that it says "freely give us all things." It continues to be grace, doesn't it? Continues to be grace, we don't earn it, we don't deserve it, but we receive it.
Somebody says, "Okay, if persons can't take away our salvation, if God Himself can't take away our salvation because He's already committed Himself to give the greatest gift and lesser gifts come easily after that, maybe there's another person. How about Satan? Maybe Satan can do it." Satan would like to do it. He wanted to destroy Job's faith, right? He wanted to destroy the faith of Peter. Jesus said, "Peter, you better be careful because Satan desires to sift you like wheat." He went before God in the book of Job and he said the only reason – to God, he said, "The only reason Job is faithful to You is because You bless him. Take away his blessing and he'll curse You. I'll shatter his faith."
God turned Satan loose, said, "Go do it all, anything but take his life." And Satan moved, and all his animals were killed, all his children were killed, and then Job was sick, then he had a bunch of stupid counselors telling him all kinds of things that weren't true, and he was isolated in the agonies of confusion because the conversation between God and Satan wasn't known to him. He had no idea while this was going on what the cause was, what the motive was, what the reason was. But in the middle of it all, could Satan take his faith away even when Satan had killed his family and left him only with a wife who said things she shouldn't have said and was no help? When Satan had removed everything that he owned and possessed, when he left him so sick and so covered with boils and sores he was scraping them off with a piece of broken pottery? That would probably be the kind of extremity that would make you say, "If you're going to lose this thing, I'm going to lose it here."
And Satan was essentially the tormentor through all of that. And in the middle of it all, what does Job say? "Though He slay me, yet will I" – what? – "trust Him." You can't kill that faith because God sustains it in the midst of everything. Satan can't do that. Satan is the accuser of the brethren, right? Revelation 12. He's the accuser of the brethren day and night before the throne of God, accusing the brethren. Did it with Job. He did it with the high priest in Zechariah chapter 3. He's coming to Jesus about Peter. He's going after Paul in 2 Corinthians 12 with a messenger from Satan being like a thorn in the flesh. Satan is the accuser of the brethren. He is the tormentor. So with that background, you come to verse 33: "Who will bring a charge against God's elect?" Well, the one who is always trying to do that is Satan. Or the beginning of verse 34. "Who is the one who condemns?" The one who does that is Satan.
Both those questions, really, are the same question. One, wanting to bring a charge that would result in condemnation. Going to God and saying, "You don't let go of this person, let me torment this person and I'll destroy his faith. He's not a worthy person. He's only serving You because things are going well. And if we make life tough enough for him, he'll curse You. I'll show you what he's really like."
This is what Satan does, I think, all the time. He's night and day before the throne of God, bringing accusations against the saints. Can he succeed? The answer comes in verse 33: "God is the one who justifies." Literally, "God is the one justifying." God alone condemns and God alone declares righteous. And if God declares that we are righteous in Christ, He can't at the same time declare we are guilty, right? And there is no higher judge. Believers are always being accused. I think that goes on in heaven all the time. Satan is always trying to make a case against our salvation, against God loving us, against God declaring us righteous and just. But God has already rendered His final verdict, and the final verdict, based upon his own sovereign purpose, the regenerating work of the Holy Spirit, the provision of Christ in His death and resurrection, activated by our faith, is that we have been declared righteous, we have been declared just, and that settles it.
There's no higher court, that's the whole point. There's no court of appeals above God. God is the only court. God is the only court in the universe when it comes to sin and judgment and justification. There is no other court. And it is God who is justifying His people, and no accusation from Satan against them can stand. And no effort on the part of Satan to bring destruction into their lives can stand.
God doesn't always prevent that. I know you hear the prosperity preachers say that Jesus wants you healthy, happy, and whole in every sense, but that wasn't Job. That wasn't Peter. Peter got sifted like wheat that night, didn't he, around the fires of the trial of Jesus, denied Jesus over and over again. Paul had his thorn in the flesh and his immense amount of suffering. Satan, with all that he could bring about in the lives of these men and in the lives of other believers that God allows him to go after for his own purposes, all that they can do can never change our standing before God and God has rendered us righteous. That's why Charles Wesley said, "Bold shall I stand in that great day, for who ought to my charge shall lay, fully through Thee absolved I am from sin and fear, from guilt and shame."
Please notice, back in verse 33, this is because we are God's elect. Who will bring a charge against God's elect, those that were foreknown, predestined? God already has determined their justification. So when Satan tries to bring us before the bar of God, we don't arrive as outlaws and we don't arrive as criminals; we arrive as God's elect, already declared righteous.
Well, there's only one possible person left outside of us who might decide to let us go, turn us loose, and that would be Christ. What about Christ? Could He give up on us? He brought us in, could He throw us out? Verse 34. Christ Jesus, is He going to condemn us? He died, He was raised, He's at the right hand of God, and He's interceding for us. He's not going to be the one because there are fourfold realities there, fourfold protection, shall Christ that died? He's the one who died, the obvious point. When He died, He received in full the punishment for all our sins. That's why He died. He was sinless. There was no guilt in Him. He died in our place, bearing our punishment. He's not going to condemn us when He took our condemnation.
Secondly, not only did He die, but He was raised. In other words, His atonement was propitious, it satisfied God and God validated His work on the cross by raising Him from the dead. His resurrection is the affirmation of the accomplishment of His atoning work on the cross. Christ's death paid in full the penalty for all the sins of all the people who will ever believe through human history and to indicate that, God raised Him from the dead.
And that's not all, there's a third element. So you have Christ paying in full for our sins, you have the Father validating that His payment was in full for our sins by raising Him from the dead, and then thirdly, who is even at the right hand of God, like Psalm 110:1, "The Lord said to My Lord, 'Sit at My right hand.'" God highly exalted Him because of His work on the cross, gave Him a name above every name, seated Him at His right hand, and every knee bows to Him. He ascended to the right hand of the throne of God because He had fully accomplished our eternal salvation.
So you pull those together, the complete work of Christ on the cross, through the resurrection, and in His exaltation and His ascension all indicates that our salvation has been paid for in full and God is totally satisfied. And as if that's not enough, end of verse 34, "He also intercedes for us." He also intercedes for us. That's the high point. He keeps on interceding, keeps on, keeps on interceding. Hebrews tells us that He's our great high priest, right? That He ever lives to make intercession for us. He ever lives to make intercession for us. He stands at the very throne of God at God's right hand and He intercedes for us. Any accusation that comes against us, He becomes the lawyer for our defense who says, "Paid for in full by Me personally." He is our high priest forever, Hebrews 6 says, our high priest forever, who anchors our hope, which is sure and steadfast within the veil.
So persons that could take away our salvation? Not any humans, not God, not Satan, not Christ. Only one possibility. What about ourselves? You say, "I know people like that. I wouldn't blame God. I wouldn't even blame Satan. They were in the church, they believed, they sang the songs, they came to Bible study, they said they believed and then they left and they denied Christ and they went away. They lost their salvation." Did they? Is that what happened? They seemed saved to me, some of them are in your family, some of them are close, maybe your children. Are you asking yourself what happened? What about those who believed or seemed to believe and then they left?
First John 2:19 gives us the answer to that. First John 2:19. Oh, we all know people like this. I've known them all my life. Many of them in this church. Did they lose their salvation? Did they just give it up themselves? Listen to 1 John 2:19. "They went out from us" – and we all know people who've done that – "but they were not really of us, for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us, but they went out so that it would be shown that they all are not of us." Never real. Tares among the wheat. Rocky soil. A little life starts to appear to show, no fruit, and they wither and die. Weedy soil, choked out by the love of the world and riches and the cares of this life. We all have people like that. But they went out from us because they never were really of us.
But for those of us who are real and genuine believers and we have the witness of the Spirit in our hearts in that regard, we've seen His fruit evidenced in our lives, our love for the Lord, our love for the truth, our love for the Word, our love for other believers, all these things, our love for things that are holy and pure and good, our salvation is forever secure. And this is the pinnacle capstone ministry of the blessed Holy Spirit. If you don't believe in that, then that is an insult to the Spirit. That is an insult to the Spirit who is doing in the life of a true believer something that that true believer denies that he's doing and rejects. The Father planned our eternal salvation, the Son provided and purchased our eternal salvation, and the Holy Spirit produces and perfects our eternal salvation.
So much for persons. There is no person who could take away your salvation. Jeremiah 31:3 sums it up. God says this: "I have loved you with an everlasting love," and I rest my weary soul in this confidence. Let's bow together in prayer.
And we're going to just have a word of prayer and then meditate against quietly at the end as Steve plays the organ for us. That little time of meditation is good for us to think about what we've heard and let it settle in our hearts, and then the prayer room will be open to my right, the members center is open, the visitors center is open, and those of you who need spiritual help, you need to be sure about your eternal destiny, the prayer room in the front to my right, come, there'll be folks who would love to speak with you and do so kindly and wisely.
Father, we thank You for the continual feast that we enjoy from Your Word that feeds our souls, gives strength to us, produces joy, hope even in the face of difficulty in life. Thank You for the mighty work of the Holy Spirit in securing our eternal glory. And we know that if we are truly Yours, we'll never lose that salvation, as if we could lose it and the Holy Spirit would have to start the work all over again and do it again and maybe again and again and again. There's nothing in the Scripture that even intimates anything like that exists, but rather this is a work that You deemed to do and set out to do and will do. And we honor You, Father, and we honor You, blessed Son. We honor You, Holy Spirit, for all that You have done for us who are unworthy, all by grace. Fill us with joy and hope and eagerness for what You have for us as long as we're here and then for what You have prepared for us when we enter into Your presence. Bring those to You who do not know You and have not yet received this gift of salvation. May they awaken in faith to embrace Christ as Savior and Lord, we pray in His name.
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More details of the Palm Pré's functionality have emerged at the D:All Things Digital conference in San Diego, including iTunes integration and a Twitter client, not to mention promises of a GSM version suitable for an 2009 European launch.
The fact that the device still isn't on the shelves didn't stop Palm's Jon Rubinstein demonstrating the application store and explaining how the Pre will, literally, replace an iPod when it comes to working with iTunes before going on to explain how universal search feature now considers Twitter to be a legitimate part of the universe.
The Pré will only pull DRM-free iTunes content out of iTunes - it tells the desktop application that it's an iPod that doesn't support DRM. So CDs you've ripped yourself and iTunes Plus content is fine, not to mention all those bit-torrented tunes imported into Apple's media player.
Quite how Apple will react is unknown - defending its monopoly is dodgy ground, but some breach of patent or copyright (on the protocol) could yet emerge. Or else the boys in Cupertino could just play dirty and make their protocol a moving target to stop the Pre in its tracks; or perhaps they won't care.
But it's not just media integration that Palm has managed to stuff into the Pré at the last moment. Not prepared to rely solely on Wikipedia for authoritative content, Palm Pré users will also be able to search the great knowledge pool that is Twitter as part of the device's universal search capability. Universal search is a function that starts out looking on the device, and spreads its attention wider until the user interacts and appears satisfied - though it's hard to see how finding a result on Twitter would satisfy anyone.
The Pré's monopolistic application store was also shown at the conference. Downloadable Palm apps are all AJAX-based, developed using the Mojo SDK and signed by Palm for distribution exclusively through their own application store. Palm has a load of AJAX extensions to allow interaction with the device, in a similar manner to OMTP's BONDI, though not compatible of course - that would be too easy.
One example demonstrated was a Pandora client, with great emphasis placed on the multitasking ability of the Pré: Pandora happily streaming music in the background and posting notifications of track changes to the home screen. Ironic, really; the original Palm OS excelled at just the kind of task-switching that makes the iPhone usable, but these days everyone is multitasking - and even if most customers don't know what it means, Apple is going to have to go along with the trend soon.
When it comes to Europe, Rubinstein confirmed that a GSM-friendly version of the Pré would be available "in a few months". That chimes well with the idea of O2 launching the device in the UK in time for Christmas, though it's hard to imagine the company will be able to raise the money for a significant manufacturing run unless the US launch goes smoothly. ®
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How Technology Effects Modern America
The microeconomics picture of the U.S. has changed immensely since 1973, and the trends are proving to be consistently downward for the nation's high school graduates and high school drop-outs. 'Of all the reasons given for the wage squeeze - international
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The video of his first talk is: "What Are the Limits of Darwinism?". Here's his second talk entitled "Evidence of Design from Biology." There were about 100 people in the audience. I'd guess that half of them were supporters and half were skeptics.
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White Bean Breakfast Hash.
I have so much to tell you about this breakfast that I don't even know where to start.
How about not calling it breakfast? Because I ate it for lunch. And I also think it makes an appropriate dinner.
While perusing the menu at Square Cafe this past weekend, I was incredibly drawn to the white bean hash. I couldn't bring myself to order it; the lure of buttery, toasted ciabatta, thick, crispy bacon and melted gruyere pulled me in. So I went with the breakfast sandwich. But the hash continued to haunt me throughout my meal and even the rest of the day. I couldn't stop talking about it.
I had to find some way to combine said menu ingredients and get this in my life as soon as possible.
This was my first time using leeks! I was a leek virgin.
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Creamy beans, sweet, caramelized onions, crunchy, salty bacon and perfect eggs. I only have one question for you…
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White Bean Hash
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- 2 leeks, trimmed, sliced and cleaned
- 1 15- ounce can cannellini beans, drained and rinsed
- 2-3 eggs, or however many you want
- Heat a cast iron skillet on medium heat. Add the bacon or pancetta and cook until browned. Remove the bacon, leaving the grease in the pan and drain on a paper towel. Add the sliced, cleaned leeks (make sure they are dry) to the bacon grease and saute until caramelized, about 6-8 minutes. At this point you can add more butter/olive oil if needed – I added a tiny bit of bacon grease I had stored in the fridge.
- Add beans and bacon back into the skillet. Stir for about a minute. At this point you can either fry some eggs in a separate skillet, or push the hash to the sides and fry the eggs in the middle. Make sure the beans, leeks and bacon are thoroughly mixed.
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The partnership between the Open Data Institute and MzTEK was shortlisted for this year's Arts & Business (A&B) Awards.
Read more about Data as Culture — our collaboration with the Open Data Institute.
The A&B Awards celebrate the finest partnerships between the commercial and cultural sectors. This year, more than 90 partnerships entered across the 8 award categories. The New Sponsorship Award, which went to Hull 2017 Angels, was presented on May 21 by Sir Peter Bazalgette, Chair of Arts Council England at the BFI Southbank Centre, London.
Left to Right at the BFI: Gavin Starks, CEO, Open Data Institute; Julie Freeman, Art Associate, ODI; Sophie McDonald, Co-Founder, MzTEK